Why do people use abusive language while angry ?

Answer 1

Good question.
Unfortunately, it is the easiest words to learn.
Now, I think of it, at times I do the same thing.
And yes it feels good. It gets my feelings across.
Even though the recipient doesn't like it.
However, I do apologise after the fact.
It is not very becoming of me.
It just happens.

Answer 2

It's the defense mechanism they resort to first.....if used often as the first resort it shows limited coping skills.

Why do people use cuss words more while angry? For shock value, to release a little badness and frustration, and emphasis. It's recognized in our culture that those words mean more and stress our point. (If society believed CUCUMBER was a bad word,then that would be the word used when people wanted to let go of their anger.)

Answer 3

Becos they need to release out their unhappy emotions to the ones that irritated them and most people think that saying abusive language will have the best impact on the other person to annoyed them too... Imagine if someone is angry and they scolded you like "you sweet asshole!" or even "you cute *****!"... you will most probably think there is something wrong with this person? Is like he/she is being sarcartics... in the end you will get angry with their sarcartics remarks too...
I think its the same no matter what they say... unless they keep quiet...

Answer 4

To offend?

To get out a million emotions in one word?

Because they're not eloquent enough to use non abusive words...?

I don't do that personally speaking...But I do cuss when something frustrates me...Like the copier at work breaking down for the millionth time today...Inwhich case Im saying it as a release to tension...

Answer 5

I think that it's because they have a very limited vocabulary. I have always told my daughters that a truly educated person would be able to curse you out in perfect English and you would have no idea of what she/he had said. I don't like to use curse words because I think that they are vulgar and takes you down to the level of the less common denominator. But unfortunately there are people who can't express them selves any other way.

Answer 6

Because anger is most likely caused by frustration, due to a slighted ego. The abusive language, or physical abuse, that a person uses in a state of anger is due to a frantic attempt to reassert one's dominance in one's own mind, and to calm one's dissatisfaction, and restore the loss of self-esteem. They do so through such methods in order to attempt to make other people seem worse in their own eyes (the language required simply to lower the self-esteem of the victim as much as their own was previous, and to justify to themself their own superiority in a manner that would not seem sufficient in silence).

Answer 7

Yes it is strange. I have now retired and in fact only swear under my breath in sheer exasperation, but at work I was so frustrated and tensed up that I swore very frequently indeed. I am not proud of it. I do know other words which could have been even more effective but poosibly I just could not remember them at the time.

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Answer 8

Just as with my previous answer ~ to be heard ~ the belief that Might is Right and that they WILL GAIN ATTENTION ~ and to get themselves in the Foreground and to WIN that ground as a result.

The greater the torrent of words the m ore chance they will have of overpowering the opposition and Win that ground.

Sash.

Answer 9

Because they are angry. Really, there's nothing like a good cuss word to relieve the frustration.

Answer 10

For the time being cuss words and things like that have more of a negative impact. They are more emotional and stressed more.